Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Luke, Middlesex]
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which such landlord and such lodger, respectively, may receive from
the Medical Officer of Health of the Sanitary Authority, may be most
suitable for the circumstances of the case.
Penalties.
19. Every person who shall offend against any of the foregoing
Bye-laws shall be liable for every such offence to a penalty of five
pounds, and in the case of a continuing offence to a further penalty
of forty shillings for each day after written notice of the offence from
the Sanitary Authority :
Provided, nevertheless, that the justices or court before whom any
complaint may be made or any proceedings may be taken in respect
of any such offence may, if they think fit, adjudge the payment as a
penalty of any sum less than the full amount of the penalty imposed
by this bye-law.
Repeal of Bye-laws.
From and after the date of the confirmation of these Bye-laws the
regulations as to houses let in lodgings or occupied by members of
more than one family, which were made by the Sanitary Authority
on the tenth day of September, in the year one thousand eight
hundred and ninety-five, and were confirmed by the Local Government
Board on the twenty-ninth day of October in the same year, shall be
repealed.
The Seal of the Vestry of the Parish of Saint Luke,
Middlesex, in the Administrative County of
London, affixed by Order dated the 22nd day
of July, 1898.
L.S.
(Signed) ENOS HOWES, Chairman of the Vestry.
G. W. PRESTON, Clerk of the Vestry.
Allowed by the Local Government Board this
eleventh day of October, 1898.
L.S.
(Signed) HUGH OWEN, Secretary,
Acting on behalf of the said Board under the authority of
their General Order, dated the 26th day of May, 1877.